Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA)
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies with a requirement for HIPAA skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited HIPAA over the 6 months to 15 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
15 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 515 651 840
Rank change year-on-year +136 +189 -159
Contract jobs citing HIPAA 58 49 17
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.14% 0.086% 0.019%
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 0.96% 0.64% 0.15%
Number of daily rates quoted 27 30 11
10th Percentile £356 £500 £425
25th Percentile £406 £591 £493
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £625 £650
Median % change year-on-year -12.00% -3.85% +62.30%
75th Percentile £619 £691 £681
90th Percentile £735 £719 £775
UK excluding London median daily rate £438 £500 £675
% change year-on-year -12.50% -25.93% +39.18%

All Quality Assurance and Compliance Skills
UK

HIPAA is in the Quality Assurance and Compliance category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies with a requirement for quality assurance or compliance skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for quality assurance or compliance skills 6,062 7,631 11,586
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 14.25% 13.36% 13.25%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,850 5,224 7,927
10th Percentile £282 £280 £300
25th Percentile £405 £413 £405
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £510 £525 £513
Median % change year-on-year -2.86% +2.44% +7.89%
75th Percentile £625 £638 £625
90th Percentile £750 £742 £713
UK excluding London median daily rate £484 £480 £450
% change year-on-year +0.83% +6.56% +5.88%
Number of hourly rates quoted 380 234 311
10th Percentile £10.95 £13.41 £12.02
25th Percentile £13.18 £18.71 £17.00
Median hourly rate £21.06 £35.00 £31.00
Median % change year-on-year -39.84% +12.90% +47.62%
75th Percentile £45.00 £62.00 £49.75
90th Percentile £68.75 £77.50 £68.75
UK excluding London median hourly rate £18.27 £35.00 £22.50
% change year-on-year -47.80% +55.56% +7.14%

HIPAA
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing HIPAA as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for HIPAA in the UK

HIPAA
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing HIPAA.

Daily rate trend for HIPAA in the UK

HIPAA
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing HIPAA over the 6 months to 15 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for HIPAA in the UK

HIPAA
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing HIPAA.

Hourly rate trend for HIPAA in the UK

HIPAA
Top 13 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing HIPAA within the UK over the 6 months to 15 May 2024. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
England +111 50 £525 -16.00% 28
UK excluding London +78 37 £438 -12.50% 13
Work from Home +115 17 £550 -12.00% 15
South West +33 16 - -
Midlands +44 13 £438 -16.67% 2
London +88 10 £600 -4.00% 12
West Midlands +28 10 £438 -16.67% 1
North of England +22 5 £506 +12.44% 4
Yorkshire +22 4 £506 - 3
East Midlands - 3 £575 - 1
Scotland - 2 £325 - 1
South East +19 1 £438 -12.50% 5
North West +18 1 - - 1

HIPAA
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 4 (6.90%) Apache Solr
1 4 (6.90%) nginx
2 1 (1.72%) Oracle SOA Suite
Applications
1 8 (13.79%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 3 (5.17%) Teamcenter
2 2 (3.45%) Oracle EBS R12
3 1 (1.72%) BusinessWorks
Cloud Services
1 20 (34.48%) Azure
2 18 (31.03%) AWS
2 18 (31.03%) GCP
3 9 (15.52%) Cloud Computing
4 8 (13.79%) Twilio
5 3 (5.17%) Entra ID
6 1 (1.72%) Azure DevOps
6 1 (1.72%) Microsoft Purview
Communications & Networking
1 18 (31.03%) Firewall
2 8 (13.79%) CTI
2 8 (13.79%) VoIP
3 7 (12.07%) Intrusion Detection
3 7 (12.07%) TCP/IP
4 4 (6.90%) DNS
4 4 (6.90%) HTTPS
4 4 (6.90%) IPsec
4 4 (6.90%) VPN
5 3 (5.17%) BGP
5 3 (5.17%) MPLS
5 3 (5.17%) Network Security
5 3 (5.17%) OSPF
6 1 (1.72%) Cisco IPT
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (8.62%) MySQL
2 4 (6.90%) Couchbase
2 4 (6.90%) NoSQL
3 3 (5.17%) Oracle Reports
4 2 (3.45%) SQL Server
5 1 (1.72%) DB2
5 1 (1.72%) MariaDB
5 1 (1.72%) MongoDB
5 1 (1.72%) Oracle Database
5 1 (1.72%) PostgreSQL
5 1 (1.72%) RDBMS
5 1 (1.72%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 5 (8.62%) Git
2 3 (5.17%) Rational DOORS
3 1 (1.72%) Burp Suite
General
1 18 (31.03%) Social Skills
2 15 (25.86%) Legal
3 14 (24.14%) Analytical Skills
3 14 (24.14%) Finance
4 8 (13.79%) Manufacturing
4 8 (13.79%) Retail
4 8 (13.79%) Telecoms
5 6 (10.34%) Public Sector
6 5 (8.62%) Banking
7 3 (5.17%) Organisational Skills
8 2 (3.45%) Presentation Skills
9 1 (1.72%) Arabic Language
9 1 (1.72%) French Language
9 1 (1.72%) German Language
9 1 (1.72%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 1 (1.72%) Japanese Language
9 1 (1.72%) Korean Language
9 1 (1.72%) Spanish Language
Job Titles
1 27 (46.55%) Architect
2 11 (18.97%) Lead
2 11 (18.97%) Solutions Architect
3 10 (17.24%) Analyst
3 10 (17.24%) SOC Analyst
4 8 (13.79%) Lead Architect
4 8 (13.79%) Security Architect
5 4 (6.90%) DevOps Engineer
6 3 (5.17%) Data Architect
6 3 (5.17%) Developer
6 3 (5.17%) Security Solutions Architect
7 2 (3.45%) Consultant
7 2 (3.45%) IT Architect
7 2 (3.45%) Security Engineer
7 2 (3.45%) ServiceNow Developer
8 1 (1.72%) Applications Engineer
8 1 (1.72%) Azure Engineer
8 1 (1.72%) Data Governance Consultant
8 1 (1.72%) Information Security Architect
8 1 (1.72%) Information Security Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (13.79%) Middleware
1 8 (13.79%) Web Services
2 7 (12.07%) XML
3 5 (8.62%) JSON
4 4 (6.90%) GraphQL
4 4 (6.90%) gRPC
4 4 (6.90%) JWT
4 4 (6.90%) LEMP Stack
4 4 (6.90%) OAuth
4 4 (6.90%) OpenAPI
4 4 (6.90%) RabbitMQ
4 4 (6.90%) RESTful
4 4 (6.90%) SOAP
4 4 (6.90%) Swagger
4 4 (6.90%) YAML
5 3 (5.17%) HTML
6 2 (3.45%) CSS
7 1 (1.72%) TIBCO EMS
7 1 (1.72%) XSD
7 1 (1.72%) XSLT
Miscellaneous
1 15 (25.86%) Management Information System
2 8 (13.79%) CESG
2 8 (13.79%) IVR
3 4 (6.90%) Cloud Native
3 4 (6.90%) Cyber Threat
4 2 (3.45%) Analytical Mindset
4 2 (3.45%) CMDB
4 2 (3.45%) Security Posture
5 1 (1.72%) Cyberattack
5 1 (1.72%) Enterprise Software
Operating Systems
1 16 (27.59%) Linux
2 10 (17.24%) Mac OS X
3 4 (6.90%) CentOS
4 2 (3.45%) Unix
4 2 (3.45%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 24 (41.38%) Cybersecurity
2 18 (31.03%) Problem-Solving
3 17 (29.31%) Data Privacy
3 17 (29.31%) DevOps
3 17 (29.31%) Information Security
3 17 (29.31%) Risk Management
4 16 (27.59%) Agile
5 15 (25.86%) Stakeholder Management
6 14 (24.14%) Analytics
6 14 (24.14%) SIEM
7 13 (22.41%) MITRE ATT&CK
8 12 (20.69%) Computer Science
9 11 (18.97%) Capacity Planning
9 11 (18.97%) Incident Management
9 11 (18.97%) Information Assurance
9 11 (18.97%) Security Operations
9 11 (18.97%) Threat Analysis
9 11 (18.97%) Vulnerability Management
10 10 (17.24%) Malware Reverse Engineering
10 10 (17.24%) Performance Optimisation
Programming Languages
1 4 (6.90%) Java
1 4 (6.90%) PHP
1 4 (6.90%) Python
2 3 (5.17%) JavaScript
2 3 (5.17%) SQL
3 1 (1.72%) PL/SQL
3 1 (1.72%) XPath
Qualifications
1 22 (37.93%) Security Cleared
2 21 (36.21%) SC Cleared
3 15 (25.86%) Degree
4 12 (20.69%) CISSP
5 10 (17.24%) Master's Degree
6 9 (15.52%) AWS Certification
6 9 (15.52%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 9 (15.52%) CISA
6 9 (15.52%) CISM
6 9 (15.52%) CompTIA Security+
6 9 (15.52%) Computer Science Degree
6 9 (15.52%) Microsoft Certification
6 9 (15.52%) SSCP
7 8 (13.79%) Azure Certification
7 8 (13.79%) CEH
7 8 (13.79%) CISMP
7 8 (13.79%) ISACA
8 1 (1.72%) CCNP
8 1 (1.72%) CCSP
8 1 (1.72%) Cisco Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 51 (87.93%) GDPR
2 31 (53.45%) NIST
3 30 (51.72%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 26 (44.83%) PCI DSS
5 11 (18.97%) California Consumer Privacy Act
6 10 (17.24%) SOC 2
7 4 (6.90%) GRC
7 4 (6.90%) QA
8 1 (1.72%) COBIT
8 1 (1.72%) ISO 9001
8 1 (1.72%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
8 1 (1.72%) NCSC
System Software
1 4 (6.90%) Docker
Systems Management
1 8 (13.79%) Kubernetes
2 4 (6.90%) Ansible
2 4 (6.90%) Terraform
3 1 (1.72%) Single Sign-On
3 1 (1.72%) TIBCO Hawk
Vendors
1 18 (31.03%) Google
2 15 (25.86%) Microsoft
3 8 (13.79%) Avaya
3 8 (13.79%) Cisco
3 8 (13.79%) Genesys
4 4 (6.90%) Oracle
5 2 (3.45%) SAP
5 2 (3.45%) ServiceNow
5 2 (3.45%) Workday
6 1 (1.72%) Checkmarx
6 1 (1.72%) CrowdStrike
6 1 (1.72%) IBM
6 1 (1.72%) Okta
6 1 (1.72%) Qualys
6 1 (1.72%) TIBCO
6 1 (1.72%) Veracode